Ingrid Sassenhagen (Germany)

Ingrid Sassenhagen is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW), Germany. She obtained her PhD from Lund University in Sweden and performed postdoctoral research at the Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin (USA), the Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (France) and at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University (Sweden). Ingrid has worked both with freshwater and marine phytoplankton species including species such as Gambierdiscus caribeus, Gonyostomum semen, and different cyanobacteria. Her research focused in the past on intraspecific diversity, local adaptation, community composition and trophic interactions in microalgae. At IOW, Ingrid contributes to HAB monitoring in the Baltic Sea using in situ imaging technologies and amplicon sequencing. Furthermore, she investigates the impact of terrestrial and anthropogenic activities on phytoplankton communities in shallow coastal ocean waters.